[Fedora-ia64-list] generating images

Prarit Bhargava prarit at redhat.com
Tue Jul 11 15:34:35 UTC 2006


> I'm not trying to mix kernel versions and modules, I'm trying to use a
> kernel with an additional option turned on. I built a new kernel from
> the src rpm but I am unable to generate the ramdisk required by the
> installer. The installer tries to mount the initrd image supplied as /
> which suggests to me that it may require its initrd image to have more
> than simply modules. And indeed, when I tried to use an image generated
> with the mkinitrd command (which contains only modules), the installer
> would not boot claiming it had failed to mount /.
>   
>   
What version of Fedora are you rebuilding in?

P.




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